Come up Quote by Neil LaBute

I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of…

— Ben Brantley

All of my plays have puzzled some people, and I'm happy to say delighted a few, but a lot of people have just not…

— Wallace Shawn

I think always whenever we're casting a movie, it's about sitting down with somebody and feeling in them some kind of the element of…

— Anna Boden

I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't…

— Charlie Kaufman

I have read a thousand screenplays, and I have acted in a handful of them, and I have felt when it feels good, the…

— Ryan Eggold

I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.

— Tom Stoppard

Writing plays, I've always felt a little like I'm guessing - less sure of what's good and what's not good. I think that's because…

— Sheila Heti

When you're in a play, you never really have a sense of what an audience is experiencing. The experience of doing a play is…

— Kate Arrington

It's a really weird feeling when you write something and you really know it and then you watch actors come in and do it.

— Jake M. Johnson

When you go to the theater, if you're really involved in the play, you don't think about it - you're in it.

— William Kraft

I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.

— Jesse Eisenberg

For me, writing plays is far more an act of the mind than of the emotions. It's a very different kind of impulse than…

— Jim Grimsley